The Arizona Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Buckeye Elementary School District and superintendent Kristi Wilson. The lawsuit is a result of work done by the Arizona Auditor General Office that found the District paid Wilson more than $1.7 million of “additional compensation” from July 2016 to December 2021.
Buckeye Elementary Superintendent Paid 100% Above Average, Teachers Below Average
Wilson’s total compensation to about $3.3 million for that time, an estimated $571,256 of which she was not entitled to under her employment agreements.
The auditor general found that Wilson’s compensation was about 100% more than what the state’s three largest school districts, on average, paid their superintendents during the same period.
The lawsuit seeks to require Wilson to return any funds BESD paid her in violation of her employment agreements and the Arizona Constitution’s Gift Clause.